Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elder Wallace, a Presbyterian minister, known to a neighborly countryside as "Uncle Henry,"was part owner of a county newspaper, and the son learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel...
...them after supper and explain that the lad knew not what he did. If they are nice neighbors, they will surrender the implement without argument and the owner can whisk the leaves off the lawn next morning as planned. Not so simple is the Government's task of recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil merchants. Last week, Judge Paul J. McCormick mounted his U. S. District Court bench...
...task which confronted the Commission was not easy. They had not only to determine how much the French and Belgians had extracted from the Ruhr but to decide how the receipts are to be distributed and by whom the cost of collection is to be borne. The next problem is to decide on the distribution of the 1,000,000,000 gold marks which is Germany's first annuity under the Experts' Plan...
...Liberals have the hardest task, for they have to fight both Conservatives and Laborites. Their best poster showed a stalwart Liberal marked "It." On one side is a dapper bald-headed Conservative with a gouty foot, labeled "Past It"; on the other side is a shabby Communist, tagged "Beyond...
...Lang of the First Parish Church at Meeting House Hill will play the organ during the funeral. Selections from Tschaikowsky's "Pathetic Symphony" and Wagner's opera "Parsifal" will be included in the prelude. The hymns to be sung are "The Strife Is O'er", "Now the Laborer's Task Is O'er" and "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand". Burial is to be in the family plot at Mt. Auburn Cemetery...